Yeah pipelines cause harm .. But moving petroleum freight and truck is better? I have a pipeline across my property.. After construction its just a cleared path essentially. There's the risk of a spill of course but look at some of the rail disasters or oil tanker incidents .. The oil and gas are being moved for you and me .. we all use it and if love alternatives that work but we aren't there yet.

I'm not sure how we got turned around on removing zoning restrictions .. I agree that's helpful. Yes the invisible hand of the market .. What's the first word there? Look at all of the products you enjoy.. How they came to be.. People in the west are so lucky and have it so good and all they do is complain.

Anyway let's agree to disagree. When people power starts actually providing food electricity and transportation I'll see it as working ..

1.9% for people to go back to crossing the Atlantic on the titanic .. No more air freight. No more sunny vacations for anyone. That's all aviation gone. Now you find me the other 50% on that pie chart and picture the miserable world you're advocating for. Then realise no logical developing country is going to comply with that plan as that means freezing them at their current level and that this isn't a fixable problem through reductions .. And chasing several thousand high emissions worth individuals is an utter waste of time .. Let's just agree to disagree I suppose.

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Some environmental impact is unavoidable. I think people are maybe a bit more aware and if I knew a company was being unnecessarily wreckless I'd personally not give them a dime. Also this is what lawsuits are for. These companies should be sued into nonexistence.

Why are domestic companies forced to compete on an uneven playing field like that? Why are companies able to just go abroad and import at very favourable rates. That's profoundly unfair .. But have you thought about what would happen to the cost of goods if there was an equal playing field? All the worst things are still done they just happen elsewhere.

Yeah.. I'm not a fan of that either personally.

Yes the BBC article is correct too. Just because CO2 emissions per km travelled are high doesn't mean they're statistically relevant in terms of total emissions. All aviation at 1.9% is basically not a meaningful amount of CO2 if you need a 50% reduction.

When weighted for KMs travelled a riding lawn mower is probably worse than a private jet by that logic.

Some people are just better in terms of being productive. I don't see how that's debatable. The question is just if you let those people keep they're outsized earnings or you forcibly redistribute them.

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Yeah I just- put that in another comment. Made a funny crack about privatising roads to incorporate the true cost of infrastructure with tolls lol. Might incentivize more people to use transit.

The protagonist being in a privileged position due to government seisuze of private property is certainly an excellent point. I just feel the state exercising power in the other direction, against productive ventures instead of property owners, may be a little too in vogue these days.

You show me a single home owner who's enthusiastic about having a large multi-unit built next door .. I wouldn't be happy personally.

If you think capital has all the power look at TC energy's keystone pipeline. Look at LNG facility approval in Canada. No shortage of capital there but those projects are dead.

If there's demand for something (housing) markets will solve that problem you just get out of the way and let them. Capitalists would love to sell the same acre of developed realeatate to more than one person. Remember - they're greedy.